OddballGreg - 5 Terrifying Horror Games

That menacing... thing... is one of the animatronic characters that make Five Nights At Freddy's absolutely TERRIFYING.

Of course. Halloween. Perfect time for scary things like badly done drag costumes and maniacal cackling on certain radio stations which was nicked from the now public domain song "Thriller". It's also when I decide it's a "good" idea to watch people play absurdly scary games. Yay...

Two months ago I wrote an article about Horror games and the Silent Hills Playable Teaser in particular as a result of watching a YouTube commentator, (Jacksepticeye), play it. Of course, in said article, I pointedly indicate what an absolute wuss I am with horror games, and how even watching someone else play them can occasionally leave me in a catatonic state. Of course, Halloween being what it is, I had the FANTASTIC idea that I should write an article about scary horror games... I'm a sucker for punishment apparently. So without further ado, here's 5 Terrifying Horror games that I really don't want to watch... or play.

Five Nights At Freddy's

First up on the list of games that made me act 15 years younger is Five Nights At Freddy's. A rather stressful horror and fear-filled game that has you playing as some unfortunate halfwit who has found himself playing nightshift at a closed down restaurant filled with murderous animatronic characters. This game holds a special place in my mind because it took the idea of fear inducing gameplay, unceremoniously dumped it out the window, and created something several times more terrifying than I had seen up to that point. (Bearing at mind that PT, as mentioned in the article I linked earlier, is the only horror game to make me actually cry.)

If you feel like listening to the fearful screams of an entertaining YouTube commentator as he frantically checks camera's for the approaching characters while begging for his power reserves to last him the night, check out Markiplier's video above.

Amnesia: The Dark Descent

Amnesia: The Dark Descent is the horror game that first made YouTube phenomenon PewDiePie famous following his fairly average Call Of Duty coverage that had attracted him a relatively small audience. Amnesia was the game that made me realize what a tremendous girl I am with horror games. Being the first horror game I had ever seen where there was no ability to fight the monsters, and thus required you to run and hide, was an interesting concept to me. So of course I tried it.

The total result's of my efforts can be surmised by the fact that within the space of 5 minutes, I had managed to scream at a door slam, flail wildly when the lights went out and red roses began falling around the character, spent 3 minutes hiding in a broom closet, and uninstalled the game. This game is absurdly frightening to me, which is ridiculous because my brother played it up until he realized that it revolved around puzzles and promptly wrote it off as junk without so much as a flinch. 

Among The Sleep

Perhaps the least terrifying game on this list, (considering I actually managed to watch it be played from beginning to end), this game is still fairly terrifying considering how many times I nearly fell out of my chair, and the fact that watching one of my friends play it resulted in me diving behind his bed out of sheer fright. (I'm a little girl apparently.) I quite enjoyed this game for it's highly atmospheric and intelligent design, and for the fantastic and highly symbolic story. Of the five, I would likely most recommend watching/playing this slightly short game yet thoroughly terrifying game. 

Slender

Another fan favorite from the "Bro Army" of YouTube personality Pewdiepie, Slender is a game inspired by a almost legendary CreepyPasta horror story which involved a faceless, otherworldly being in a suit taking people and murdering them in the woods. (Lovely.) So naturally people made a game about it and Pewdiepie recorded videos of himself playing it and screaming loudly. (With fair reason I suppose. This game is pretty damn scary.)

Outlast

And lastly, but certainly not least in the scares department, is Outlast, another frightening horror game that makes you unable to do anything more than run and hide which is the reason why my knee is aching while I write this article. By the time Outlast originally came out, I was already so positive that I had no interest in watching even a moment of it be played. Of course, in the pursuit of quality articles for this blog, I ended up watching the first episode of Pewdiepie's playthrough as linked above, and promptly decided that I was definitely not mistaken for that decision. According to the review's and accounts from friends, Outlast is "Scary as S*** Yo'. So if you feel like making going to sleep difficult for yourself, play this. (Teehee)

If not, then you likely value your possibly rare quantities of sleep, much like myself. If you are one such person, or are one of the crazy individuals who think being scared witless is funny, let us know down in the comments below, or via Facebook/Twitter. We here at TCSA love to hear from you. Of course, if you happen to have any horror game enthusiast friends, consider sharing this article with them as well. They may find it entertaining for some bizarre reason or other. Of course, if you would like to read more humorous article's like this one, consider liking the Official TCSA Facebook Page and/or liking us on Twitter using the associated buttons on the bar to the left so that you can get all the latest posts, as they're published. Regardless of what you do, I thank you for having taken the time to read this post; hope that you have/had an absolutely FANTASTIC day, and I will speak again soon.

Happy scares my friends.

JovialJman - Morbid Sayings And Their Origins

Roses are red, and so is blood, it looks like death, hides in a flower bud.

Some things that we say on occasion and let our children say, may just have a very gruesome origin. Many are not definite, but it is interesting that there are these theories to some sayings and songs

Does that "cat have your tongue?"(... no, I am speaking, teehee). This famous saying that is told to people that are quiet when we expect them to be speaking has many theories to its origins, some include that in ancient times in Egypt, cats were very sacred animals, and when someone said something against the ruler, they would have the persons tongue cut out and fed to their cats. Another theory is that sailors were punished with a cat o' none tails, and the pain was so much that it left the sailors speechless. If you have no tongue, can you still "pay through your nose?" This means, today anyway, to pay something at a very high prices as you have no other option, (like masks and costumes the day before Halloween). The origin of this one is also rather unknown. One theory is that when the vikings where still around they made the Irish towns pay a tax, and those that did not pay said tax, they would slit the noses of the people there as a punishment and warning for others.

When trying estimate something, you can use "the rule of thumb." One theory for this one was a law that was said to exist that a husband may beat his wife as long as the stick he was using was no thicker then his thumb. I might be "pulling your leg", but it is one of the origins. Now to pull someones leg means to say something that wasn't true, and when revealing it you may say "I was just pulling your leg." But in the past, when people where robbing a house someone would be on stand by by the rooms of the owner of the house encase they were to wake up. Now this robber would literally pull the owners leg, forcing them to the ground where they could restrain them.

It was once a custom for rather sinister people to add weight to a persons chest to "press them for an answer", however today weights are not used, but we are still pressed for answers when we must give them in a short period of time. Now people in England a while back, did not press people for an answer when recruiting them to the army. "Bottoms up" means to finish your drink, but in England when people were recruiting for the war, these people would slip a coin into unsuspecting peoples drinks and they would not know until they were finished their drinks, and the recruiters said that they then accepted payment for joining the army. So bottoms up meant to lift your glass before drinking to check for this "payment"

When you have to face something you really don't want to, you must "bite the bullet" and just go and do it." This saying comes from time of war where soldiers that had wounds that needed to be treated and needed some sort of surgery, they were given a bullet to bite as there was no anesthetic back then that would have kept long enough to take to war. When a thief is caught in the act, is is said to be "caught read handed" even if their hands were not read. This originated in a time that it was illegal to butcher animals yourself at home, but having fresh meat was ok, so to arrest these people that were doing these butcherings they would have to be caught in the act with blood on their hands, thus "caught read handed" was a literal term.

After some one has sneezed, we say "bless you", but why do we say that? It turns out that medicine was not as amazing as it is today. When someone got sick, there was a good chance of them dying so since England was rather religious at this time, people would say bless you in case you were to die, and this was especially true during the plague. Speaking of which, the nursery rhyme that children around the world sing, has connections to the plague. "Ring around the rosy", was the rush that came when a person was infected by the plague, and those poises in the pockets was to make them smell nice as it was a belief at the time was that diseases where transmitted through bad smells, and when the people were dead, they would actually fall down, (how nice).

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